Don't miss the Great Lakes Great Books nominees for 2018-19! Coming soon: links to the nominees at the AADL.

Here's my 2017-18 Summer Reading letter.

2017-18 Purchases

We received a Karen Thomas grant for a wonderful collection of picture books of black & brown characters. This was inspired by Verna Myers' TED talk on implicit biases and how we can reset our internal assumptions about who is safe and trustworthy by surrounding ourselves with pictures of black and brown people. These are contemporary fiction books with characters who happen to be black and brown.

Thanks to the Scholastic Book Fair, we were able to more than double our funding and to buy some wonderful new nonfiction titles in the most popular categories, including dinosaurs, cooking, places in the world, arts & crafts, space, robotics, vehicles, and pets.